Meaning vs.Emotion

After writing my third essay i began to wonder, can anything have a meaning without emotion? Are meaning and emotion inseperable? I believe they are intertwined and this is how: Meaning can either be possitive or negative, basically saying it is depicting happiness or sadness. Meaning can't be objective because it's a poet or painter's personal interpretation of the way life is and how they wan't the viewer or reader to understand their point of view, or challenge it. Art depicts numerous emotions: happiness, sadness, excitement, fear, lust, etc. So how can someone not find emotion in meaning? For instance, the painting "Mourning Picture". It is depicting happiness since the girl is in the sunlight and with a lamb, which symbolizes the heavenly father, and the parents are grieving in shadow; which is saying that although people die, for instance the daughter, they should not GRIEVE for she is in heaven and instead they should be in PEACE. So the meaning depicts happiness and sadness.

The Road Not Taken

Tomorrow is my 20th birthday, and i started to think. Wow, Ive lived two decades already, where has time gone? Am i going the right path, have i made the right decisions? This is one of my favorite poems and I'm sure all of you have read it before. It reminds me to make my own path in life, even if its sometimes hard. I think you come out a stronger person when u take the path less taken. That's what motivates me to continue with school and make my own decisions.


The Road Not Taken, By Robert Frost


Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Independent Woman

After reading Desiree's Baby by Chopin i feel very fortunate to live in a time where i can make my own decisions and carve my own path in life. If i was alive 100 years ago i wouldnt even be able to vote! When Chopin was alive women were property of their husbands. Women couldn't own property, and they typically wouldn't work unless they were a servant. Women usually chose a husband by their status and wealth; it wasn't always about love. And once your married your life is devoted to your husband; he makes the decisions on where you live and how many kids you'd have. I would be miserbale! I would feel like a prisoner in my own home. Especially if i had to ask permission for everything i do. Not only that but back then men viewed women as unequals. Nowadays i can work where i want, and get the education i need or desire. I know their are still countries around the world where your family decides who you marry such as middle eastern countries like india. It's even worse in China where their is a one child policy and they kill girl babies because they want a boy to carry on the family name! When i hear about these other countries i feel lucky to live in the United States. I dont have to be married to have a successful life, although someday i would like to be married. Thats why i feel an education is so important because i dont want to have to rely on my spouse for income. I'm astonished at how much progress women have made in the past 100 years.